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The Cirque du Soleil continues to widen its scope beyond circuses, into the realm of interactive live experience and gastronomy. In a double-barrelled release issued Tuesday, the Montreal-based company announced two new international projects: Sama-Sama Live Experience, developed in Tel Aviv, Israel, and slated to be launched in Madrid in November; and HEART Ibiza, a three-pronged […]

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Health Minister Gaétan Barrette warned that if the world doesn't step up its response to Ebola soon, it will be too late. "We can send human resources to control an outbreak of 2,000 people, but what will we do when there are 500,000?"

The infection of a second health-care worker in Texas who treated the first patient to be diagnosed with the virus on American soil has raised serious questions about the readiness of supposedly state-of-the-art Western health care to confront the illness that has claimed more than 4,000 lives in Africa.

Montrealers have always had a fondness for Jean Paul Gaultier, and he apparently for us, having accepted a proposal from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts to mount a quasi-retrospective exhibition. The show, The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Catwalk to the Sidewalk, is a celebration of the designer’s humanism and embrace of beauty in all its guises.

Creativity is in Helga Schleeh’s blood. A multimedia artist whose apartment in Notre-Dame-de-Grace is hung with her haunting, misty images of the human form, Schleeh is also a musician and spiritual teacher.

I have seen Daniel Boulud in a suit only once. It was back in June of 2012, when he was meeting journalists to discuss the launch of his restaurant Maison Boulud. Located in the landmark Ritz hotel, the restaurant would be posh, expensive, and helmed by a chef who would rarely be in town.

In voting the way they did, the pragmatic Scots showed they appreciate the practical value of multiple political identities in our ever-more-globalized world. And it's it says a lot about Canada that the U.K. is now looking at a more federal model to redefine itself.

The Scottish referendum and upcoming planned Catalonian referendum provides for some interesting points of comparison and contrast. This much seems sure: The fact that a simple six-word question is being asked in Scotland will have an influence on any future referendum question in Quebec.